Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 564211 - Employee killed, another injured, in fall from scaffold

Accident Summary Nr: 564211 -- Report ID: 0627100 -- Event Date: 10/23/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483491	10/23/1990	1742	0	Lasley Acoustics Company, Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483509	10/23/1990	1711	0	Arkansas Mechanical Contractors
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483517	10/23/1990	1743	0	Alvin Lackie Tile & Plaster Co.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483525	10/23/1990	1721	0	J. E. Beard Painting Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483459	10/23/1990	1799	0	Handley, Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483533	10/23/1990	1731	0	Powers Of Arkansas
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483566	10/24/1990	1711	0	Custom Sheet Metal, Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483558	10/23/1990	1731	0	Central Industrial Electric Co., Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483541	10/23/1990	1742	0	Young Group Of Little Rock, Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483459	10/23/1990	1799	0	Handley, Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483467	10/23/1990	1542	0	Nabholz Construction Corp.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483475	10/23/1990	1793	0	Ace Glass Company, Inc.
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103483483	10/23/1990	1741	0	John W Dunaway Company

Abstract: Employees #1 and #2 were working on a two-point suspended scaffold. Safety lines had been secured to the top of the structure and dropped over the side. Safety belts and lanyards were on the scaffold but were not worn by the employees. Apparently, no inspection was made of the two stirrups prior to their use. The overspeed brake on one stirrup was completely missing a little rubber wheel that would have detected a fall. The other stirrup had only 40 percent of the rubber wheel remaining. It has not been determined why one end of the scaffold fell and the other fell 18 ft before the overspeed brake (with 40 percent of the rubber wheel) caught. The impact straightened out a 1/2 in. diameter steel hook on the outrigger above, allowing the one stirrup and a scaffold board to fall about 65 ft to a roof. Employee #2 landed on the roof, sustaining multiple broken bones and internal injuries. Employee #1 fell an additional 12 1/2 ft to the ground, sustained multiple broken bones, and died shortly afterward.

Keywords: FALL PROTECTION, STRUCK AGAINST, SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE, BRAKE, TWO PT SUSP SCAFFOLD, FALL, WORK RULES, SCAFFOLDING, ROOF, CONSTRUCTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	103483491			Occupation Not Listed
2	103483509			Occupation Not Listed
3	103483517			Occupation Not Listed
4	103483525			Occupation Not Listed
5	103483459	Fatality	Fracture	Occupation not reported
6	103483533			Occupation Not Listed
7	103483566			Occupation Not Listed
8	103483558			Occupation Not Listed
9	103483541			Occupation Not Listed
10	103483459	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported
11	103483467			Occupation Not Listed
12	103483475			Occupation Not Listed
13	103483483			Occupation Not Listed

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